Law enforcement officials in Liberia's central region of Bong County say weak drug laws are making it difficult for the Government of Liberia (GoL) to crack down on marijuana farmers engaged in domestic marijuana trade in that part of the country, the Heritage has gathered.
According to report, many farmers in Liberia are turning to growing marijuana to make ends meet. Marijuana is largely a domestic trade, the report notes. The United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says marijuana is the world's most widely used illegal drug. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime adds that many African countries, like Liberia, have ideal growing climates for marijuana.
The UNODC says a quarter of the world's marijuana is grown in Africa. It reports that up to 13.5 percent of the adult population uses it. This is higher than the global average of between two and five percent.
The report indicates that growing, selling and buying marijuana is illegal in Liberia, but Liberian law enforcement officials here are quoted as saying that penalties for growing, selling and buying the drug are minimal and not enforced, adding that they [Liberian law enforcement officers] do not have enough resources, or strong laws, to go after offenders.
The Chief for central Liberia at the Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA), Flomo Weahma, says:"Currently, the laws on the book, in my view, are very weak, and they are permissive of these acts that are perpetrated by criminals who continue to have these drugs in our communities, that have caused our children, our brothers, our fathers and our mothers to become addicted to these harmful substances," the report divulges.
The report discloses that Liberian drug officials say local production and consumption of marijuana is a problem, adding that those involved in marijuana trade said they cannot survive without it.
The Director of the DEA, Anthony Souh, the report adds, stated that marijuana is illegal, no matter what, adding: "You cannot take crime to be an income-generating activity. What is a crime is a crime. To go into drugs does not justify one's desire to make money because there are other cash crops that can make money as well."
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Today any nations citizens most Patriotic thing they can do for their Country is fight to end Cannabis prohibition it is the duty of the free. People need to study the true history of this wonder plant and its benefits and expose the corrupted profiteers and there greed, Follow the $$Money$$ Cannabis = Jobs,energy Independence Food, Fiber, Medicine there are thousand of proven uses
" THE GREATEST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A FREE AFRICA IS THE ABILITY TO GROW CANNABIS FREELY!!!. THERE IS NO CRIMINALITY IN CANNABIS AS THE FIRSAT COMMENTER SIGHTED THE BENIFITS OF CANNABIS IS ENOUR MOUSSSSS!!!! DO WE SIGHT THAT ?? IT HELPS PAIN RELIEF, IT HELPS ARTHRITIS GLAUCOMA AND MEDICINALY MANY MORE THINGS . THIS PLANT IS TRULY SPECIAL , IT CAN PRODUCE HEMP FOR ROPE.' IT IS NOT A DRUG AS SUCH TO BE CLASSED AND CATEGORISED IN THE SAME BREATH AS METH COCAINE HEROIN COCAINE ALOCHOL CIGARETTES THE WEST WANTS TO PUT STIGMAS ON WHAT THEY WANT AND CRIMINALISE WHOM THEY WILL!!!. AFRICANS MUST DESIST FROM BEING BULLIED ,'THEY ARE USING THIER CORRUPTED MONEY AS A WEAPON USING CORRUPTION TO UNDERMINE AFRICA". WHY ARENT WE ALLOWED TO GROW MANUFAVCTURE DEVELOP NATURAL PLANTS IN OUR PRESSENCE TO ENHACE WORK OFR THE POR CHANNEL INCOME THAT CAN PAY ATXES ON. THE IDEA SHOULD BE THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY SELL CANNABIS TO COLORADO WASHINGTON THE SATET AS THER LEGALISING OF CANNABIS HAS TAKEN THE CRIMINAL;ISING OF PEOPLE AND THE LEGALITY F MANY MANY SMOKERS." WHAT WE MUST KNOW IS THAT THE WEST PREFERS TO SEE MORE BLACK PEOPLE BECOME ADDICTED TO HEROIN COCAINE METHAMPHETAMINE THINGS THEY MANUFACTURE IN THIER LABORATORIES '; SOEMTHING AS NATURAL AS CANNABIS DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME ADDICTING QUALITIES AS ALCOHOL CIGARETTES HEROIN COCAINE METH THESE ARE KILLERS, THEY DESTROY BRAIN CELLS THEY MAKE HASH OF THE LIVER THE FGFACT THAT YOU CAN OVERDOSE ON HEROIN ADND DIE; THE SYMTOMS ARE SO BITTER THAT ONE WOULD RATHER STAY ADDICTED THAN SUFFER WITHDRAWALS. "CANNABIS HAS NO SUCH NEGATIVES, IT DOES NOT BECOME ADDICTING ,IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU HANG OVERS ITS DOES NOT HAVE ANY WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS "; THE QUALITIES IT POSSESSES IS MORE OF A HEALER THE FEELINGS ARE MORE OF MEDITATION AND REASONING CONSTRUCTIVE AND LAUGHTER !!!. COMPLETLY NON VIOLENT WHERE BOOZE OR WINE TOTAL DESTRUCTION!!!!YOU CAN BOIL CANNABIS FOR HEALING PURPOSES, WHEN I WAS A VERY YOUNG CHILD I WAS VERY SICKLY ALWAYS CXOMMING DOWN WITH ONE THING OR ANOTHER!!, MY NIEGHBOR WAS A NURSE AND SHE SUGGESTED TO MY GRAND FATHER WHO WAS VERY STRICT RESPECTFUL MAN VERY PROMINENT, SHE SUGGETSTED CANNABIS TEA WHAT!!!!! HOWEVER THERE IT WAS THAT THE TEA WAS MADE AND I WILL SWEAR TO PEOPLE TODAY SINCE MY CHILDHOOD ASIDE FROM MY INJURIES TODAY I HAVE NEVER EVER BEEN SICK SINCE!!!!! CANNABIS IS A MIRACULOUS PLANT IT WILL BENIFIT THE AFRICAN CONTINENT DEARLY. THE GREATEST THING I SEE TODAY IS THAT AFRICA IS REJECTING THIER CLASS A ' DRUGS ,THIER MANUFACTURED LABORATORY DRUGS," UNNATURAL UN- AFRICAN BLEACHED OUT DRUGS THAT CAUSES MORE PAIN THAN LAUGHTER!!!. WHEN YOU SMOKE CANNABIS YOU LAUGH' YOU FEEL JOY' THERE IS NO HANG OVER 'SO YOU DONT GET DEPRESSED IF YOU DO NOT HAVE IT!!!!. WHEN THERE IS ALCOHOL CIGARETTES HEROIN COCAINE THE OPPOSSITE IS TRUE; YOU WIL BE SIGNIFICANTLY POORER IN THE MORNING BOTH MENTALLY AND FINANCILALLY!!!. PEOPE DO NOT GO OUT THIER WAY FOR CANABIS BUT YOU CERTAINLY DO FOR ALL THE ABOVE NAMED THINGS. "MUST RETHINK CANNABIS IN AFRICA' THE PEOPLE LIKE IT THERE IS MORE USE FOR CANNABIS THAN ANY OF THE ABOVE AND THE ROYALTIES CAN BE BENIFICIAL .'IF THE " ALLMIGHTY GOD" DID NOT WANT US TO HAVE IT WE WOULD NOT HAVE IT IN ABUNDANCE. THE AMERICAN DEA WANTS TO CONTROL AFRICANS AS IF WE ARE THIER SLAVES ;THEY SEND THIER AGENENTS OVER TO AFRICA TO DICTATE AND SET UP LEGISLATION WITH PACTS OF LAWS THAT ARE NOT DEBATED AMONGST THE PEOPLE ??? WE MUST REJECT THIER HEROIN ADN COCAINE FROM OFF OUR SHORE THIWS A CURSE TO THE BLACK MAN!!!! WE MUST STAND FIRM AND BE BLESSED BY THIS PLANT THIS PLANT IS MULIT PURPOSEFUL IT IS NOT A HEARESEY!!! WHERE THE DEA GES DRUGS FOLLOW SUCH AS HEROIN COCAINE THIS SI WHAT THEY WANT TO MAKE A CURSE TO AFRICANS. WHAT I WOULD SAY WE AS AFRICANS CAN NOT AFFORD THIER EXPENSIVE DRUGS WE SHOULD STICK TO OUR ROOTSAND CULTURE DRUGS!!!!!!! WE WILL CALL CANNABIS LEES HOSPITAL LESS PRISON LESS SICKNESS LESS DEPRESSION LESS MONEY LESS CONFUSIION!! THEY WANT US TO CRIMINALISE THIS WHILE THEY COMMIT THE MOST CRIMES ON THE PLANET!!!!. LEAVE THE POOR PEOPLE TO EARN A LIVING AND 'I WILL GUARANTEE YOU THAT THERE WILL BE LESS SICKNESS AND LESS NEEDS FOR HOSPITALS AND PRISON ' CANNABIS IS A NON VIOLENT REMEDY!!!!. "CANNABIS IS THE HEALING OF THE BLACK NATIONS". DO NOT START THIS FOOLISHNESS OF CRIMINALISING PEOPLE FOR NON VIOLENT ACTS ,THEY ARE NOT SITTING IN LABS MANUFACTURING THIS PLANT; 'THIS IS NATTURE GIVING A GIFT TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE"". WE DO NOT NEED LABS FOR CANABIS THIS A PLANT PROVIDED WITH ALL ITS POWER FROM "THE ALL MIGHTY GOD" THIS TAKES THE POWER OUT OF THE WHITE SUIPREMACIST' CAMPS WHERE THEY WANT TO PLAY GOD AND BE THE WORLDS ANSWER TO ALL SICKNESES?? THIS IS ALL LIES!!!!!. THEY HAVE DEALT TO AFRICA SOME SERIOUS GERMICIDAL AND LABORATORIAL DISEASES THAT HAS LEFT DEATH AND DESTRUCTION RAMPANT IN AFRICA!!! AFRICANS HAVE REBOUNDED AND HAVE COUNETERED THIER DISEASES BY STERNGTHENING OF THIER IMMUNE SYSTEMS SOMETHING THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW EVEN BY CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS MANY MORE AFRICANS SHOULD'VE DIED !! INSTEAD THEY HAVE COMBATED THEIMPOSIBLE. "THEY FOUND OUT THAT SHOULD THEY DETONATE A NUCLEAR BOMB THE ONLY PEOPLE LIKELY TO SURVIVE WOULD BE THE ORIGINAL BLACK MAN". WHAT THEY KEEP FORGETTING IS THAT THE BLAKC MAN IS NOT FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OLD THEY ARE MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD AND THY ARE WELL EQUIPED TO FACE MANY DELEMNAS. "AFRICA MUST EMBRACE THE MIRACULOUS PLANT WHICH IS CANNABIS' AND IT MUST NOTEVER BE CRIMINALSED IN AFRICA!!!' WHEN PEOPLE START TO MURDER AND BLOW THEMSELVES UP OVER CANNABIS; THEN YOU CAN CRIMINALISE IT. WE MUST USE OUR MENTAL STRENGTHS TO DEFINE OUR OWN DESTINY. WE DO NOT NEED OTHERS TO DRAFT OUR LAWS OUR CONSTITUTIONS WE SEE THAT THE WEST IS IN CONFUSION??? "THEY INVADED COTE d' IVOIRE FOR BEING DEMOCRATIC AND EXERCISISNG THIER DEMOCRATIC RIGHT BY ABIDING BY THE CONSTITUIONAL COURT THAT WAS EMBARACED BY THE PEOPLEOF ALL THE NATIONAL PARTIES!!! THE WEST FELT THAT AFRICANS WERE TOO KNOWLEDGEABLE!!! SOEMTHING THEY DID NOT REALISE EXISTED..' SO THEY CRIMINALISED THE PRESIDENT AND IS TRYING TO CRIMINALSIE HIS WIFE!!!!!!! WE SEE THEY ARE LOOSING THE ENTIRE SCOPE OF REALITY. WE SEE THEY HAVE SUCH A TERRROIST PROBLEM IN THE USA ,WHITE MIDDLE CLASS BOYS AND MEN ARE MURDERING AND MASSACREING US CITISENS BY THE DOZENS. THEY ARE GETTING TREATED BY THIER OWN THE SAME WAY THEY USE THIER DRONES TO MURDER AROUND THE PLANET ,THEY TARGET ASSASSINATE PEOPLE AS IF THAT IS LEGAL !! MURDER IS MURDR WHETHER BY DRONE OR BY MAN". THEY DO NOT OWN LEGALITY AS THEY SEEM TO THINK, THEY BY PASS AND VIOLATE LAWS OF THE PROPHETS, WHILE USING THE LAWS OF MAN TO DEVIATE ,GO AROUND, CHANGE, REDEFINE, AD MISINTERPRET !!!THERE ARE NO LAWS FOR THEM!! BUT THEY WANT TO PLAY COP AND KNOW IT ALL PRETEND TO HAVE THS RESPECTABILITY THAT DOES NOT EXIST IT IS ALL CHARADE WITH THEM. THESE ARE ALL COMMON CRIMINALS WITH CRIMINAL BEHVIOURS, THAT THEY ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO LEGITIMISE. " CANNABIS SHOULD NOT BE CRIMINALISED IN ANY COUNTRY IN AFRICA" ; IT SHOULD BE LEFT TO GENERATE INCOME FOR POOR PEOPLE ..THERE SHOULD BE A NATIONAL MARKET WHICH SHOULD BE AT SOME TIME TAXED TO HELP PROVIDE FOR SCHOOLS HOSPITALS ROADS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROMISES OF THE WESTERN CEOS' WHO PROMISED SCHOOLS ROADS AND SO ON THERE IS LITTLE MOVEMENT JUST A A CON GAME AS WAS IN THE PAST. WE ARE IN TOO MUCH OF A HURRY TO BRING IN OUTSIDERS,WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO DO THESE THINSG ALL THIS DOES IS INCREASE CORRUPTION.. WE NEED TO EDICATE THE PEOPLE FIRST WE NEED REVUNUE SERVICES INFRASTRUCTUER WHERE THEY CAN TRCK AND COLECT ALK OUTSTANDING PAYMENTS WE MUST NOT BE QUICK TO MAKE DEALS SOWE CAN BUY A HOUSE. WE NEED TO STERNGTHEN ORU OWN MECHANSIMS MAKE THE MONEY WORTH SOEMTHING FOR THE PEOPLE. D NOT BE IN SUCH A HASTE TO GET RICH QUICK !!! REMEBER A A WIZE MAN RIDES DONKEY!!! CANNABIS IS MEANT TO BE THIS WHY IT IS EBING TOUTED, IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PEOPLE INCREASE IN KNOWLEDEG AND EDUCATION LEAVE CANABIS ALONE WHY?? IT WILL PRODUCE REVENUE THAT WILL PROVIDE HOUSES IT WILL BUILD SCHOOLS IT WILL BUILD ROADS WHERE THE WEST WILL ONLY TALK OF BUILDING WHILE THEY USE AND MISUSE THE PLACE AND LIE CONTINUOUSLY!!!!!!!!!! CANNABIS IS YOUR FUTURE!!!!!!
This is a perfect time to legalize, regulate and tax the weed. Marijuana is a natural growing plant, it is not a habit-forming drug and is much safer than alcohol or cigarettes. Liberia should be first in Africa to reap the tax benefits from legalized pot.
Growing marijuana is patriotic. It is a rebellion against unhealthy alcohol. North Korea knows this and allows their soldiers to consume marijuana as it is legal. There are no "gateway drug" concerns since selling cocaine carries the death penalty.